Driving Test Centres in Plymouth: 4 DVSA Centres Ranked
4 DVSA driving test centres across Plymouth, part of England. Average pass rate 51.6% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Plymouth
Learners in Plymouth have 4 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Plymouth and surrounding areas, recording 141.3K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 51.6% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 51.6% county figure is 2.9 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Plymouth better than average on the headline measure. Within-county variation matters as much as the average, individual centres can sit anywhere from ten points above to ten points below the county number once you compare them side by side.
The headline spread within Plymouth sits between Plymouth (77.3%) at the top of the league and Plymouth (40.8%) at the bottom, a gap of 36.5 percentage points. Urban-heavy routes with multi-lane roundabouts, bus lanes and dense pedestrian traffic typically drag the bottom-of-county figure down, even within a single county.
Top 5 highest pass rates in Plymouth
All test centres in Plymouth
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.